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Have you noticed? The site is brimming with excellent content. Highlights from the last two days: Thomas Page McBee’s “SELF-MADE MAN #9: Passing.” The Rumpus Review of The Love Song…
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“You’re vs. Your”
In a lyrical crusade against grammatical ignorance, super-fast rapper David McCleary “Mac Lethal” Sheldon breaks down the difference between “your” and “you’re”. Video after the jump.
Coffee for Life
Here at Rumpus HQ, we take every caffeine-addiction-validating study to heart. So we’re pleased by this week’s research finding that “people who drank four or five cups of coffee a…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This week in this-really-happened: John Waters picked up hitchhiking by Here We Go Magic. Let’s power the world with viruses! Telepathic robot arms are no longer just for monkeys. Globe…
Late Night Library
The second episode of Late Night Conversation features Rumpus essays editor Roxane Gay. Listen in as Gay talks with guest host Karen Munro about emerging writers, publicizing her debut novel,…
SF Demographics
A few figures for some midweek perspective (from a New York Times article about the presence of coyotes in SF parks, and the possibility of coexistence): “In San Francisco, a…
Genre Resistance
“Let me say and I probably mean this in the most manifesto-ing way that genres don’t exist. They don’t exist at all. They serve the needs of marketing, of academic…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It begins. Scientists just made a pretty incredible anti-aging break-through. Portfolio Magazine used to be a pretty cool thing. Vesta! Your kid’s crappy haircut may be giving them lazy eyes.…
Grotto Night: Sunnyside Up
The SF Writers’ Grotto, The Booksmith and friends will present “An Evening of No-Holds-Barred Optimism” on Friday, May 18th at The Red Vic Movie House (1727 Haight Street, San Francisco).…
Carlos Fuentes, 1928-2012
Carlos Fuentes has died at 83. Here’s an extensive 1981 conversation between the Paris Review and the author. “I think all writers live off of obsessions. Some of these come…
RIP Mike McGrady, Literary Hoax Mastermind
Award-winning Newsday reporter Mike McGrady passed away on Sunday at 78. He was best known as the architect of a literary hoax, the 1969 collaborative novel, Naked Came the Stranger,…